This summer me and my wife took a overland journey from London to Siliguri (my hometown in India)
On the 14th day of our travel, we were looking out of our train window and enjoying the view of the semi frozen lake Baikal....

The trip to the city is just awesome.You will really never forget this place once you come back to home.The best time to visit Russia according to me is summers because the temperature is just perfect and you would love to take long walks on the road specially during evenings....

As I mentioned in my last post, since we were visiting a friend, we stayed at her suburban flat in Fruktavaya Street which is not the usual tourist stop and hence made the use of metro to reach to most of the tourist destinations.Using the metro could be a little tricky as there is hardly any signage in English, so would suggest to downloada Metro map which has stations name both in English and Russian and keep it as a print or as an image on your smart phone....

Day 0: When Day 1 became Day 0 We go to Mumbai airport sleepy at 5 am.. loitering around the boarding area to stay awake.. stand in line for Boarding.. & just before we reach the counter..Screen change.....